Maine was at the center of one of the biggest boxing scandals of all time. In a sport known for its chaos...
In 1847, a Maine ship captain invented the donut as we know it today – with a hole. On the day Lewis...
For many years during the 19th century, the simple, self-sufficient Shakers of Sabbathday Lake, Maine, mingled happily with the luxury-loving guests and...
Charles Ingraham went off to sea as a privateer during the War of 1812 and it almost ruined him. It didn’t kill...
Edna St. Vincent Millay was a 22-year-old Vassar student on May 4, 1918 when she wrote a letter thanking her friend Corinne...
On April 28, 1780, Gen. Peleg Wadsworth wrote a letter from Falmouth (now Portland), describing the sad state of the conflict in...